Agri-Business Support Services

Indian agriculture scenario is blessed with long growing-season, diverse soil and climatic conditions comprising several agro-ecological regions that are conducive to grow a variety of horticulture crops, through technological intervention. However, there are huge post-harvest and handling losses. As such, abundant investment opportunities are there in the expanding domestic market and export arena, that country's share in the world trade of processed foods is still less than one percent. Rapid urbanization, increased literacy and rising per capita income, have all caused rapid growth and changes in demand patterns, leading to new opportunities for exploiting the large latent market. An increasing acceptance of new products with market development efforts is seen because of such interventions. Besides very good investment opportunities too exist in many areas of food processing industries, the important ones being: fruit & vegetable processing, meat, fish & poultry processing, grains, packaged, convenience food and drinks, milk products etc. Big business houses that have entered the sector with an eye on global markets have indicated that contract as well as corporate farming may get them timely, consistent and adequate supply of produce of international quality, catering to the global needs.

The ample scope of investment opportunities has given rise to requirement of technical expertise in the sector leading to opportunities for the technical know-how providers and value advisory services.